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A SCOTTISH BASKET HILT BROADSWORD, C.1700-25
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Item Number: 09-924
The Jacobite Rebellions of 1688 to 1746 championed the restoration to the throne of the House of Stuart, deposed during the English Civil War. Scottish pride and the perception of English treachery necessitated that every man own a sword. This example is dated by its large rounded basket hilt which is made without a quillon scroll. The proportions throughout are somewhat larger than usually encountered, a reflection of the stature of the owner. The blade, as with nearly all Scottish basket hilts, is earlier. The hilt decoration is typical and suggestive of provincial manufacture.
Blade length: 33 1/8"
GC.482
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37 double edged blade with broad central fuller at the forte etched each side with Prudentia et Constantia, and crowned Georgian royal cipher with the GR obliterated both sides.
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The blade virtually identical including the erased ciphers and clearly etched by the same hand. A second example Denman family sword of the Rebellion period.
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This sword is from a group of which about a dozen examples are known. Variations in the configuration of the hilt elements include examples with and with out a forward quillon and the inclusion of an oval rein aperture.
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